Get Drug Addiction Help – Don’t Switch to Heroin
In Glenn Falls, New York, heroin abuse is on the rise. According to Police Chief, Joe Bethal, the problem may be caused by people switching from OxyContin and other prescription painkillers to heroin when what they really need is addiction help.
“One of the reasons may be because of prescription drug abuse. The pharmaceutical companies have manufactured quite a large amount of prescription opiate-based painkillers and we know they’re out there in the homes and the medicine cabinets,” said Chief Bethal.
He hit the nail right on the head. Pharmaceutical companies (Purdue Pharma, when it comes to OxyContin) are producing endless amounts of pain killers, and they will sell as many as they can.
If you can sell OxyContin to 34 internet pharmacies – enough OxyContin to fill 100 million prescriptions – you know there isn’t any discrimination. Anyone can become addicted to prescription pain killers. Warren County Undersheriff Robert Swan said, “It’s not just seen in one area, one group or a specific gender. It covers everyone”. Switching from prescription painkillers to heroin is a bad choice. As the Chief says, getting addiction help services is not a crime.
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I testified in Federal Court against Purdue Pharma at their sentencing for criminally marketing OxyContin. Charges to which they and their 3 CEO’s Michael Friedman, Howard Udell and Paul Goldenheim pled guilty. Their marketing OxyContin as less likely to be addictive or abused has unleashed a Holocaust of death and addiction in every state in the country. I have to believe there is a special place in hell for them for the destruction of families throughout the country. My work continues and is now directed at why the FDA sat back and allowed this to happen and did nothing. I also testified against Purdue Pharma in front of the US Senate and said the company has mass manufactured OxyContin so it finds its way onto the streets in plentiful supply and now also the Internet. I am not going away and the FDA is now on alert — I want answers.
Comment by Marianne Skolek — April 25, 2008 @ 3:48 am